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  • 14 - Refusing Sovereign Power – The Relation between Philosophy and Politics in the Modern Age

  • Edited by Karl Ameriks
  • Otfried Höffe, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • Book:
    Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy
    Published online:
    13 November 2009
    Print publication:
    27 April 2009, pp 284-304

  • Summary

    There is an intrinsic contradiction in a public treaty containing covert or secret articles. If Immanuel Kant's article appears to be speaking only of philosophers, this itself is simply another ironical aspect of his secret maxim. Kant is the first thinker to provide us with an adequate philosophical explication of the problem concerning the specific character of practical consciousness. The division of labour possesses an eminently political aspect that finds further expression in the conception of the division of powers. Kant presents and defends a new paradigm for conceptualising the relationship between politics and philosophy. In view of the important role played by a freely emerging public sphere, there can be no doubt whatsoever that Kant's revision of the Platonic idea of philosopher rule implies anything but a withdrawal of philosophy from the world of politics.